It was in
1919 that File, the most important Italian company for the
production of light sources, was born in Lecco.
Why a lightbulb factory in Lecco? There were two basic reasons:
firstly, immediately after World War I, Lecco, like many other
cities, found itself with a strong availability of manpower
and unemployment and this favoured the opening of a new production
plant that required a large source of manpower;
